Thurgood

Boys' name

Geat

Thurgood has been given to 5 babies in the U.S. since 1993. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1993, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Thurgood, 1993

1 in 754,000

Thurgood over time, 1880–2025

Boys

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Thurgood: meaning, origin, and history

Geat

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Thurgood means

Thurgood means “Geat”, associated with Gautr.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From the Middle English personal name Thurgod, an Anglicized form of Old Norse Þorgautr, a personal name composed of the elements Þórr (“Thor”) and the demonym Gautr (“Geat”).

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Origin, language, and formation

Thurgood is used in English.

Thurgood comes through Old Norse Þorgautr.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Þorgautr.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Thurgood between 1993 and 1993. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1993; its best national rank was #10,011 in 1993.

How common is Thurgood?

Thurgood had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1993, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1993: 1 in 754,000; 5 of 3,768,729 births
Among boys only: 1 in 392,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 1993: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 522,458 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Thurgood sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1993 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 522,458 children born in 1993 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Thurgood. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Thurgoods were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Thurgood was born before 1993 — so the typical Thurgood is around 32 today.

Median birth year: 1993; About 32 years old
Biggest decade: 1990s; 100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 5; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1990s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (5).

Is Thurgood rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1993 (5)
Years since peak: 32; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #10,011; 1993

Spellings of Thurgood

Thurgood is not the most common spelling — Thurmond is, with 99.5% against Thurgood's 0.50%.

Thurmond99.5%1,002
Thurgood0.50%5

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Thurgood by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #10,011; 1993
Peak year: 1993; 5 that year
First recorded: 1993
Last recorded: 1993
All-time count: 5
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Thurgood

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Thurgood

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Kaylene Jacquelynn Katlin Jessenia Brea Krysta Nikole Kalyn

For a brother

Rosendo Brandan Shaquille Eloy Raheem Denton Coty Jade

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